Matt’s writing

Matt’s top print articles (as adjudicated by Matt)

Matt Peiken spent 21 years as an arts/features staff writer with three daily newspapers before diving into 3-Minute Egg. He won regional writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Associated Press and California Newspaper Publishers Association. In 2006, Matt also published a parody of self-help books — Positive MEinforcement: Shout ‘Me First!’ and Make Every Day All About You!

Here is a sampling of Matt’s best print journalism work over the years:

Lonely at the Top: A ‘Great Giant’ struggles to fit into a small world (Dec. 27, 1998)
This is a profile on the world’s tallest teenager and his mother, who sacrificed her own happiness to give her son a chance at his.

B.T. BOMBERS in St. Paul’s Frogtown area is part boxing gym, part community center (Dec. 26, 2001)

A Night at the Opera: Fifth-graders at Linwood Elementary School (and the professionals guiding them) wrote and staged their own opera. With the curtain about to pull, a bright girl with a leading role is missing (Feb. 10, 2002)